Duration: Full day
With
this early morning start, catch the Sabah countryside at its best.
Drive past small towns and villages, rice farms and fruit orchards,
over the ridges of the Crocker Range to the Kota Belud district.
Head northwards where vast oil palm and coconut plantations dominate
the open countryside.
Visit a longhouse community of the Runggus people, one of the many indigenous
tribes of Sabah. Although most tribal groups lived in longhouses
traditionally, progress dictated that they move on.
Today, only the Runggus and Murut peoples still maintain the longhouse
system. Each family has its own "apartment" but share a common living area.
A longhouse may be made up of 20 to 40 families.
The Runggus are a farming community and their women participate in a
cottage industry producing woven reed baskets and bead necklaces in
tribal designs.
